America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Saturday, July 10, 2021
REBECCA DOWNS - Maybe People Don't Know About Biden Successes Because They're So Few - WHAT?!?!?! - YOU THINK BIDEN'S BILLIONAIRE CRONIES AND BANKSTERS ARE HURTING?!?!?
ILLEGALS THINK BIDEN'S INVASION IS AN INCREDIBLE SUCCESS. THAT'S WHY THEY VOTED FOR HIM.
Maybe People Don't Know About Biden Successes Because They're So Few
Natasha Korecki in her piece for POLITICO on Friday highlighted the concerns of Unite the Country, described by Korecki as this "pro-Biden super PAC." Not only is it pro-Biden, it's solely dedicated to being pro-Biden. The group's concern is that people don't know enough about President Joe Biden's successes, and it could cost them in 2022.
According to a memo from late June based off of focus group conducted in battleground states, which POLITICO obtained, Biden's "proposals remain worryingly undefined in the public consciousness and voters are primed with misinformation that helps Republican justify their opposition." It also mentioned that "Democrats must communicate much more aggressively to define success for the [American Rescue Plan] and to explain why it is important to pass the American Jobs Act and the American Families Plan."
The memo would go on to bash "Fox-News driven spin" for "a real lack of information about the specifics of the Biden Agenda."
As Korecki also wrote when it comes to the memo's concerns for lack of knowledge about these successes:
They not only sow doubt in President Joe Biden’s ability to avoid the typical losses the party in the White House faces during a president’s first midterm election, but serve as a reminder of the difficulties that come in translating policy initiatives into political successes. Having pledged to avoid the missteps of the Obama years — in which officials acknowledged that they failed to sell their stimulus bill to the public — the Unite the Country memo suggests that Biden may be succumbing to the same fate. Though the president and Cabinet members have visited specific states touting their plans, and ad campaigns have been launched to supplement those efforts, the message isn’t reaching middle America.
Historically the party in charge of the White House loses seats in the House and the Senate, as Korecki mentioned. It doesn't look like Biden will "avoid" that history either. This is especially relevant considering that the Democratic majority in the House is in the single digits. Far more Republicans were elected in 2020 than predicted. And, Democrats only have a majority in the 50-50 Senate because Vice President Kamala Harris is the tie-breaking vote.
But there's more to it, beyond the fate of historical precedence and the numbers that the Democrats have or don't have.
Biden may have had his honeymoon period of high popularity ratings, but those ratings are dropping. They're particularly sinking when it comes to crime especially, but also issues like guns and immigrations. The president is losing favor among fellow Democrats on these issues too, according to multiple polls.
The American Rescue Plan received no Republican support; even two Democrats voted against it in the House.
Democrats are almost certain to lose seats come 2022. And it shouldn't come as a shock, at all.
In May, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us hired a former assistant Senate parliamentarian to craft a plan for Democrats that would pass amnesty for illegal aliens through reconciliation.
Democrats, along with some House Republicans, have the support of a large amnesty coalition which includes former President George W. Bush, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, and a number of Koch brothers-backed organizations.
Already, current immigration levels put downward pressure on U.S. wages
Biden Antitrust Executive Order Has Major Giveaway for Tech Giants
Order recommends restoring net neutrality, preventing tech mergers
President Biden signs an executive order in Jan. / Getty ImagesSanti Ruiz • July 9, 2021 4:10 pm
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President Joe Biden on Friday signed a sweeping executive order that targets big tech mergers but includes a provision favored by most tech giants.
The order instructs the Federal Trade Commission to more closely monitor merger attempts by "dominant internet platforms" and to restrict how tech companies can exploit users' personal information. But it also recommends that the Federal Communication Commission restore net neutrality rules, which prevent internet providers from making distinctions among users. Tech giants like Facebook and Amazon support net neutrality because it bars internet providers from charging platforms based on their broadband use.
The order signals the Biden administration's confused approach to big tech regulation. At the signing ceremony, the president called out big tech directly, describing the executive order as an effort to promote "fair competition," one of the administration's priorities. But Biden still has not nominated a nominee for assistant attorney general for antitrust, a major enforcement position. Congress is considering considers legislative proposals to regulate the biggest tech companies, but there is little consensus on what approach to take.
Politico reported that the executive order was shaped in part by Tim Wu, a professor now serving in the Biden administration as a special adviser on economic and tech policy. Wu and FTC chairwoman Lina Khan have been some of the administration's most aggressive voices in calling for increased scrutiny of major tech companies.
Wu is one of the most ardent proponents of net neutrality, a term he coined in 2003. The Trump administration rolled back net neutrality regulations in 2017 in an attempt to increase broadband competition. At the time, Democratic lawmakers and social media giants warned that the change would lead to providers restricting users' internet access and discriminating against certain content providers. Those concerns proved to be overblown, though Facebook and Twitter have recently come under fire for discriminating against conservative content.
One of the order's provisions seems aimed at Amazon. It calls for rules barring internet marketplaces from exploiting their power by copying the products of smaller sellers on their platforms. The order will likely increase regulatory scrutiny of Amazon's planned purchase of MGM Studios.
The order contains a variety of "suggestions" for independent agencies, which prompted accusations from industry groups and think tanks that the administration is pressuring agencies to fall in line. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a think tank that takes funding from big tech companies, said, "The White House is attempting to meddle into the work of federal antitrust agencies."
The order also contains a variety of non-tech related provisions, including a request for the Department of Agriculture to issue additional rules to support small farmers and meatpackers. And it asks the FTC to issue rules banning "unnecessary occupational licensing restrictions," the practice of requiring employees to obtain a license before entering certain industries.
THE 8 YEAR 'HOPE & CHANGE' BANKSTER REGIME OF LAWYER BARACK OBAMA, LAWYER JOE BIDEN AND LAWYER ERIC HOLDER WITNESSED THE GREATEST TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE RICH IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY.
THIS IS WHY THE BANKSTERS AND CRIMINALS ON WALL STREET GOT BEHIND THE BIDEN-HARRIS CORPORATIST REGIME NOW IN PLACE.
ARE YOU DOUBTFUL THE RICH ARE GETTING MUCH, MUCH, MUCH RICHER UNDER BRIBES SUCKING LAWYER JOE BIDEN?
DURING THE SO CALLED OBAMA RECOVER, TWO-THIRDS OF ALL JOBS WENT TO FOREIGN BORN. HIGH TECH WORKERS IMPORTED IN TO WORK CHEAP AND ILLEGALS WHO GOT ALL THE OTHER JOBS.
GOOD TIME TO ADD THAT BIDEN HAS DIRECTED HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL TO !NOT! PROSECUTE CORPORATE CRIMINALS. OBVIOUSLY THESE ARE BIDEN'S BIGGEST DONORS.
Report: Joe Biden Promises Wall Street Donors the Status Quo in Private Calls
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is promising Wall Street donors the economic status quo that they became used to before President Donald Trump’s administration, according to a report.
Microsoft Exemption From Antitrust Bill Followed Company Donation to Top Democrat
Rhode Island congressman David Cicilline swore off big tech money in 2019
Rep. David Cicilline/ Youtube ScreenshotSanti Ruiz • June 24, 2021 11:35 am
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Rep. David Cicilline (D., R.I.) exempted Microsoft from a bill he sponsored to regulate big tech three months after he received $5,800 in donations from Microsoft president Brad Smith, FEC filings show.
Cicilline's decision to accept the money marked an about-face for the Rhode Island congressman, who swore off big tech money in 2019. Cicilline is the lead sponsor of the American Choice and Innovation Online Act, which would ban tech companies above a certain size from using their platforms to unfairly promote their own products. The bill originally applied to platforms with 500,000 monthly active users. Earlier this month, the threshold was quietly changed to 50 million active users, a change that would exempt Microsoft.
Cicilline did not explain why the bill text had changed to exclude Microsoft. But the donation from Microsoft’s CEO raises questions of how much influence tech companies have over bills designed to regulate their industry. In 2019, Cicilline announced he would not take money from big tech companies.
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee debated a package of bills that would force big tech companies to provide data to competitors and give the Federal Trade Commission more tools to regulate them. Rep. Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) displayed an early draft of the bill marked "confidential Microsoft" obtained from a whistleblower, and suggested that Microsoft had received an early copy. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D., Calif.) proposed an amendment that would make Microsoft subject to the bill once again, which was defeated in an 18-25 vote.
Brad Smith has bragged about his company’s close ties to the Hill, telling CNBC "there are times when I call people who I don’t personally know, and somebody will say ‘you know, your folks have always shown up for me at my events. And we have a good relationship. Let me see what I can do to help you.’" When Microsoft attempted to buy TikTok, Smith personally called dozens of lawmakers to push the bid through.
As pressure on tech from Washington has increased over the past year, so has aggressive lobbying from big tech companies. Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly called Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday to complain that the antitrust bills were rushed. The bills are the products of an 18-month House investigation into market power in the tech industry.
The lobbying pressure has not gone unnoticed on the Hill. In a June 22 Senate hearing, Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah) was visibly frustrated as he blasted "well compensated lobbyists and their nonprofit proxies" who "pervert conservative economic and legal philosophy into a defense of big tech monopoly." Facebook and Amazon are now the largest corporate lobbying spenders in the country.
Cicilline’s spokesman claimed in April 2021 that he does not accept money from executives at tech firms. At the time, Politiconoted that Cicilline had received $1,000 from a lobbyist for Apple. Smith has praised Cicilline in the past.
Microsoft has recently censored terms offensive to the Chinese Communist Party, including "Tiananmen Square" and "tank man," from its search engine Bing. It also banned discussion of the "lab leak" hypothesis from LinkedIn, the social networking platform it owns.
MODERN SLAVER JEFF ' BEZOSHEAD' BEZOS IS ONE OF BIDEN'S BIGGEST DONORS
Biden Admin Tells Struggling Small Businesses To Work More With Amazon
U.S. Commercial Service partners with Big Tech to promote international trade
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the White House in 2016 / Getty ImagesLeif Le Mahieu • June 23, 2021 5:00 am
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The federal government is steering small businesses to do more business with Amazon to help them recover from the economic crisis prompted by the pandemic.
The U.S. Commercial Service, a trade promotion agency, is hosting a series of "Go Global" webinars with Amazon in June to teach small businesses to access markets in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates by becoming sellers on the e-commerce behemoth. Some entrepreneurs are crying foul, blaming Amazon as the source of their woes.
Gina Schaefer opened up her first hardware store in Logan Circle, Washington, D.C., in 2003. Alongside her husband, she expanded the business to 13 locally owned hardware stores, employing roughly 300 people in the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia metro areas. She said a retailer like Amazon is the last place to which the federal government should turn to help small businesses.
"The larger Amazon has gotten, the fewer number of independent businesses we have," Schaefer told the Washington FreeBeacon. "One by one industries have been picked off by predatory pricing and overlooked government regulations to the point where starting a new business, at least in the retail sector, is nearly impossible."
The agency's webinars with Amazon are designed to get clients for the web giant. The lessons on offer at the June 15 event included helping businesses create Amazon Global Accounts. A follow-up webinar in July will teach entrepreneurs how to not only team up with Amazon but also with U.S. trade authorities.
"We will cover … how to sign up for a [Amazon] Global Seller Account … [and] the role the U.S. Commercial Service plays in providing comprehensive export counseling to support your global business strategy," the event page says. "We'll connect you … to explore free resources and government funding to support your e-Commerce and export-related activities."
In response to Amazon's growing market dominance, small businesses are forming coalitions seeking to leverage anti-trust legislation to ensure that they are not crushed. Schaefer, a member of the Small Business Rising coalition, said the Commercial Service partnership with Amazon will further undermine small businesses as they struggle in the post-lockdown economy to stay independently viable. Like many other small business owners in retail, she supports the idea of Amazon being broken up.
"No one ever envisions that street empty or only populated by a soulless Amazon store. Yet businesses are failing at alarming rates now, in large part to concentrated market power," Schaefer said.
Amazon has maintained close ties with American trade officials over the years. It employed 28 lobbyists working on trade issues in 2020 and 2021 as part of its multimillion-dollar influence operation, according to federal lobbying records. Seven of those lobbyists held high-ranking trade-related positions at the federal government, including at the U.S. Commercial Service and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, before joining the Silicon Valley giant. Its leadership has also been closely allied to Democrats, with employees contributing more than $2 million to the Biden campaign and 75 percent of its donations going to benefit Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Representatives from the U.S. Commercial Service and Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.
Small business advocates say that the mass closures of mom-and-pop stores during the pandemic require bold steps from lawmakers. Sarah Crozier, of Main Street Alliance, faulted the Biden administration for promoting Amazon rather than cracking down on alleged market manipulations.
"The federal government is critical to help level the playing field for small businesses by improving anti-monopoly protections against giants like Amazon and creating opportunity for small businesses," Crozier said.
Some lawmakers have begun speaking out against Amazon's sway within the administration and on Capitol Hill. Rep. Ralph Norman (R., S.C.) said Amazon has not proven to be a faithful business partner to the third party sellers that populate its website.
"From motor oil to children's clothing, we need to know if the oddly random (and growing) list of Amazon's own products were identified and developed by exploiting sales & product data from its third party sellers. And we need to know why there are countless reports of retaliatory and anti-competitive conduct from Amazon," Norman said. "On multiple fronts, Amazon has given us plenty to be concerned with. Congress needs answers about the rampant reports of harmful and monopolistic behavior from that company."
President Joe Biden said outright Friday that he is “a proud capitalist” despite praising big government and pushing socialists polices that are anti-free market.
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines socialism as“a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.”
Biden’s policies for which he advocates in his trojan horse infrastructure package seem to mirror that definition. A few of them include the following:
Subsidized community college;
Subsidized preschool;
Increasing subsidies for low-income housing;
Subsidizing advanced racial equity and environmental justice;
Subsidized loans to Tribes, territories, and disadvantaged communities across the country;
Subsidizing a new federal bureaucracy of the office at the Department of Commerce;
Subsidizing the Dislocated Workers Program and sector-based training;
Increasing subsidies for child tax credits;
Subsidized child care facilities;
Subsidized the supply of child care;
Subsidized Community Revitalization Fund;
Subsidizing of Neighborhood Homes Investment Act tax credits;
Subsidized funding to ensure new jobs created in clean energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure are open and accessible to women and people of color;
Subsidized to ensure employers are providing workers with good jobs – including jobs with fair and equal pay, safe and healthy workplaces, and workplaces free from racial, gender, and other forms of discrimination and harassment;
Subsidize a Civilian Climate Corps;
Subsidize funding for other climate-focused research;
Subsidize the Rural Partnership Program to help rural regions, including Tribal Nations;
Subsidize community violence prevention programs.
Biden is also working with self-designated socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to enact the trojan horse reconciliation package that is rumored to be worth $6 trillion.
The establishment media has also praised Biden for being the “Second Coming” of former big government presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, who, between the two of them, enacted some of the largest, most distributive programs in American history, which include Medicare, Medicaid, and the New Deal, which included social security and the creation of several large federal agencies.
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